Toray Industries Inc. (TYO:3402) holds a leading share of the market for carbon fiber, having played a significant role in the material’s development throughout its history. Following on from earlier...

Business in South Korea is growing for Japanese manufacturers, coming in conjunction with the country’s expansion of LCD and OLED screens, semiconductors and smartphones as primary sectors. South Korea’s economic...

Synthetic rubber prices in Japan are continuing to rise, driven largely by an across-the-board increase in raw material costs. This has included naphtha, butadiene, styrene monomer and acrylonitrile (AN), each...

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. is speeding up its efforts to create synergy between its High Performance Engineering Plastics Division and Carbon Fiber & Composite Materials Division. As of January, both divisions...

Toray Industries Inc. (TYO:3402) is moving to introduce radio frequency identification (RFID) tags made using printable semiconductors, with plans being to test these at real stores as soon as 2019....

Maruzen Petrochemical Co. Ltd. is upgrading its ethylene facilities by replacing some smaller, older furnaces at the heart of its naphtha cracking operation. The upgrade work will be coordinated with...

Total sales for January–June in China’s petroleum and chemical industries have come in at 6.43 trillion yuan ($937.2 billion), marking a 13.2 percent year-on-year increase. Coming in response to vigorous...

CPC Corp., Taiwan, is considering building a new petrochemical complex in India, launching feasibility studies at two candidate sites as part of this. The petrochemical complex under consideration would include...

Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4204) is boosting its electronics business through its High-Performance Plastics (HPP) Company. For fiscal 2017, the HPP Company posted record-high profits for the fifth year in...

The global supply–demand balance for methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomer appears unlikely to ease up in the near future. Lucite International Inc., a U.S.-based subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp. (TYO:4188),...